Tree and farming system resilience to climate change and market fluctuations (Treesilience)

Two of the biggest external sources of uncertainties in farmers’ livelihoods are 1) impacts of changes
in the mean and fluctuations of annual rainfall and shifts in seasons; and 2) market fluctuations
of agricultural products. Tree and Farming System Resilience to Climate Change and Market
Fluctuations (Treesilience)1 uses focus-group discussions to encourage farmers to 1) identify the
fluctuations that cause shocks to their livelihoods in a guided process thinking though the shocksexposure-
responses-capacity chain; 2) reveal the impacts of the shocks to their farming systems;
3) characterize the impacts of the shocks on dominant tree species; and 4) semi-quantitatively assess
the price fluctuations of dominant tree products.